Re: [RFC Part1 PATCH v3 16/17] X86/KVM: Provide support to create Guest and HV shared per-CPU variables

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 13:47:20 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:18:42AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> I was trying to avoid mixing early and no-early set_memory_decrypted() but if
> feedback is: use early_set_memory_decrypted() only if its required otherwise
> use set_memory_decrypted() then I can improve the logic in next rev. thanks

Yes, I think you should use the early versions when you're, well,
*early* :-) But get rid of that for_each_possible_cpu() and do it only
on the current CPU, as this is a per-CPU path anyway. If you need to
do it on *every* CPU and very early, then you need a separate function
which is called in kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() as there you're pre-SMP.

Thx.

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